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 other parts of the sacred volume, at the especial request of the emperor, who desired to have a commentary from the same pen on each of the epistles. There are yet found MSS. of Claude's on various subjects; but his commentary on the Galatians is the only one that has been printed, and of this - such has been the zeal of the Inquisition in its destruction - scarcely one copy remains.

Job exclaims, in the ardour of self-extenuation, "O that mine enemy had written a book!" Our good bishop might well have expressed the same wish, for it is a curious fact, that fragments of the work so sedulously destroyed have been preserved in the manuscripts of his opponent and former friend, Jonas of Orleans. We will give one or two extracts, to prove that the Church of Rome was only then beginning to admit the errors which have since so thickly crowded on her. On the vital one of Transubstantiation, which our apostolic bishop combats throughout all his writings, he observes: "The bread is the representative of Christ's mystical body - the wine the symbol of His blood." On the worship of images he asks, "Why adore images? but here is what the miserable sectarians say, 'It is in memory of the Saviour that we worship and adore the painted cross erected to His honour.' Nothing pleases them in our Lord but what delighted even the impious - the opprobrium of His passion, and the ignominy of His death; looking always at the agony of His passion without heeding the words of the apostle, 'Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet henceforth know we Him no more (thus).'" Again the bishop remarks, "If men are commanded not to adore and serve the works of God's hands, there is much stronger reason for not serving and adoring the works of men's hands," etc. And then, in honest scorn,